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We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good,
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Niewiele ludzi umiera w Indyjskim Domu Goscinnym, glownie tylko narkomany, takie chude. Dla was nie problem, wy takie piekne, wielkie, tluste.
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Legendy mowia, ze wybranke mozna rozpoznac natychmiast, poniewaz budzi milosc kazdym gestem, kazdym zdaniem, kazdym ruchem, kazdym dzwiekiem i kazdym nastrojem, ktory odbija sie w jej oczach. Legendy powiadaja, ze mozna ja poznac po skrzydlach - skrzydlach widzialnych tylko przez wybranka - i po tym, ze tesknota do niej zabije wszelkie inne dazenia milosci.
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najlepsza sztuczka w zyciu jest chciec niczego i dostac to.
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czasami trzeba sie poddac, zanim sie wygra.
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Twierdze, ze rzeczywistosc, taka, jaka znamy, jaka zna ogol, to nic wiecej niz iluzja. Za tym, co widzimy oczami, istnieje inna rzeczywistosc. Trzeba ja rozpoznac sercem. Nie ma innego sposobu.
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Kiedy jestesmy mlodzi, sadzimy, ze cierpienie to cos, co ktos nam moze zadac. Kiedy przybywa nam lat - kiedy zatrzaskuja sie jakies stalowe drzwi - wiemy juz, ze prawdziwe cierpienie mierzy sie tym, co nam odebrano.
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mezczyzni zdradzaja swoje mysli, odwracajac wzrok, a uczucia - wahajac sie. Z kobietami, dodala, jest dokladnie na odwrot.
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There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment. I
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They slink up beside you, and whisper I thought you should know. Then they proceed to destroy your confidence, and trust, and even the quality of your life with their disgusting fragment of the truth. Some scrap of repugnant knowledge that they insist on being honest with you about. Something you'd rather not know. Something you could hate them for telling you. Something you actually do hate them for telling you. And why do they do it? Hone..
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When we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.
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of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.
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Zemsta, tak jak seks, najlepsza jest powolna, nalezy ja zaspokajac z otwartymi oczami.
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When I smiled my relief and surprise, the man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
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through his thick, black hair.
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Sometimes you break your heart in the right way,
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The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.
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India is about six times the size of France," he went on, as the glass of alcohol and a bowl of curried snacks arrived at our table. "But it has almost twenty times the population. Twenty times! Believe me, if there were a billion Frenchmen living i n such a crowded space, there would be rivers of blood. Rivers o f blood! And, as everyone knows, we French are the most civilised people in Europe. Indeed, in the whole world. No, no, without l..
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Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out--your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of girls here.
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I don't know about the universe, but I'll make a pact with you. I hereby promise that I'll always dance in the rain at least once, in every one of my monsoons.
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resentment is unmet need or desire,
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There are only one million of them, the truly evil men, in the whole world. The very rich and the very powerful, whose decisions really count--they only number one million. The stupid men, who number ten million, are the soldiers and policemen who enforce the rule of the evil men. They are the standing armies of twelve key countries, and the police forces of those and twenty more. In total, there are only ten million of them with any real p..
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THE WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards
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The evil men are the power--the rich men, and the politicians, and the fanatics of religion--whose decisions rule the world, and set it on its course of greed and destruction.
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And the hundred million cowards,' Abdul Ghani continued, pinching the handle of the teacup between his plump fingers, 'they are the bureaucrats and paper shufflers and pen-pushers who permit the rule of the evil men, and look the other way. They are the head of this department, and the secretary of that committee, and the president of the other association. They are managers, and officials, and mayors, and officers of the court. They always..
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ili chto-nibud' vrode etogo?
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The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!
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But there are some people, some loves, that worry every goodbye, and leaving them is like leaving the country of your birth.
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Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that's all we have--to hold on tight until the dawn.
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to milosc czyni ludzi wielkimi, a nienawisc malymi
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that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.
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a man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. Then he has to earn her respect. Then he has to cherish her trust. And then he has to, like, go on doing that for as long as they live. Until they both die. That's what it's all about. That's the most important thing in the world. That's what a man is, yaar. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until y..
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When we say that this definition of good and evil is universally acceptable, what we mean is that any rational and reasonable person--any rational and reasonable Hindu or Muslim or Buddhist or Christian or Jew or any atheist, for that matter--can accept that this is a reasonable definition of good and evil, because it is based on what we know about how the universe works.
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At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. For I still love you with the whole of my heart. I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has..
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I'm a writer. I have to believe in the power of love. Suicide isn't an option.' 'Not for you.' 'And not for you. If you're thinking about it, you can also put some thought into the fact that you don't have the right to take your own life. Nobody does.' 'Why not?' Rannveig like the runway asked, her eyes wide, innocent of the cruel, broken question she'd just asked. 'Think of it this way, Rannveig, does a deranged person have the right to ki..
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No-one, and nothing, could hurt me. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.
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Compassion's a very strange thing. It comes from deep inside. People know it when they see it, because you can't fake it. I know. I've tried. I was terrible at it. I got sick, when I tried. I had to go back to being a genuine, uncaring cunt, just to get well again. It's genuine, see, even being an uncaring cunt, and I'm drawn to genuine things, even if I don't like them.
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Hypocrisy is just another kind of cruelty.
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The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish.
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There's no patience as pure as the patience we spend on loved ones, who make things harder than they need to be.
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The world and I are not on speaking terms, Karla said to me once in those early months. The world keeps trying to win me back, she said, but it doesn't work. I guess I'm just not the forgiving type.
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Men don't like to be that honest about love: to put the gun in a woman's hand, and hold it against their own hearts, and say, Here, this is how you kill me. But it was okay. It was okay.
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Whatever the reason, I felt dishearteningly alone in the city. I'd lost Prakabar and Abdullah, my closest friends, in the same week, and with them I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says You Are Here. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving ..
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And little by little, things settled down to the semblance of peace that's good enough, when you know enough about bad enough.
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